School: Kilnagross (roll number 12317)

Location:
Kilnagross, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
John Hunt
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    Riddles
    1. Spell broken down ditches in three letters. Ans = Gap
    2. Useful useless instrument often bought but never lent. The men that buys it it is not his own and the man that borrows it never brings it home. And = Coffin.
    3. I have an Aunt she has a red nose and the longer she sits the shorter she grows. Ans = Candle.
    4. Under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire.
    Ans = A cake in an oven.
    5. What is it that is black and white and read all over?
    Ans = Newspaper.
    6. Two legs sitting on three legs watching one leg. In comes four legs takes up one leg and goes out. Ans = a butcher sitting on a stool, watching a leg of mutton. A dog comes in and takes the mutton and goes out.
    7. Why does a hen cross the road. And = to get to the other side.
    8. There was a blind fiddler in Dublin and he had a brother, a blind fiddler in Cork and the fiddler in Cork had a brother a blind fiddler in Dublin.
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